CTAN update: beamertheme-durham
This release introduces significant structural and usability improvements while maintaining the theme’s design philosophy of clarity, cognitive restraint, and structured navigation. Major Changes - User-defined theme color via Theme_Color - Robust section title handling, including safe support for mathematical expressions - User-configurable Outline and Thank You slides - Dedicated \makereferences{} command for references slide (excluded from progress indicators) - Refined accessibility mode - Support for plain + invert and accessibility + plain + invert - Improved internal stability and option handling - The theme is designed to be compiled with LuaLaTeX (recommended). - Documentation, demo presentation, and updated manual are included.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/beamertheme-durham The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/themes/beamertheme-durham/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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beamertheme-durham – A content-first Beamer theme for teaching, research, and long-form academic presentations
This package provides the Durham Beamer Theme, a content-first presentation theme for LaTeX Beamer designed for teaching, research, and long-form academic presentations.
The theme emphasizes structural clarity, pacing awareness, and layout stability under dense textual and mathematical content. It is implemented entirely from first principles and not derived from any existing Beamer theme.
Conceptual inspiration from established themes such as Metropolis is acknowledged; no external code is reused. The color palette is inspired by the visual identity of Durham University. This package is an independent academic contribution and not an official or endorsed Durham University template.
The package includes a modular theme implementation, a demo document with compiled PDF, and a user manual.
| Package | beamertheme-durham |
| Version | 1.0 2026-02-04 |
| Copyright | 2026 Suhail Rizwan |
| Maintainer | Suhail Rizwan |